June 2010
17 posts
“We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts.We must break out of the...”
– General Douglaus MacArthur, 1955
LET’S NOT KILL EDUCATIONALLY
We kill educationally, when we
1) Let forms of oppression, aggression, violence be commited in schools, classrooms;
2) deprive human beings of their right to become literate when there are conditions for making that come true;
3) exclude students on the basis of gender, age, nationality, linguistic background, spiritual belief, economic condition, culture,...
May 2010
49 posts
“We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968
Te Whiti o Rongomai - Wikipedia, the free... →
“Though some, in darkness of heart, seeing their land ravished, might wish to...”
– Te Whiti told his people in March 1880.
NONaggression, nonanimosity,nonantagonism,nonattack(ing), nonatrocity…
NONbelligerance,nonbrutality,nonbombing,nonbombarding,
NONconspiracy,noncealment,…
NONdestruction,nondevastation,nondiscrimination,nondivisiveness,nondomination,
NONexploitation,nonexplosion,nonextermination,nonescalation,…
NONfrightening, nonfear,…
NONgore,…
...
We conclude that biology does not condemn humanity to war, and that humanity can be freed from the bondage of biological pessimism and empowered with confidence to undertake the transformative tasks needed in this International Year of Peace and in the years to come. Although these tasks are institutional and collective, they also rest upon the consciousness of individual participants for whom...
“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he...”
– Pythagorus
Blk/Rhetoric - Sonya Sanchez
who’s gonna make all that beautiful blk/rhetoric mean something. like I mean who’s gonna take words blk/beautiful and make more of it than blk/capitalism. u dig? i mean like who’s gonna take all the young/long/haired/ natural/brothers and sisters and let them ...
“Let there be no love poems written until love can exist freely and cleanly”
– Amiri Baraka (black art)
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
He had got, finally, to the forest of motives. There were no owls, or hunters. No Connie Chatterleys resting beautifully on their backs, having casually brought socialism to England. Only ideas, and their opposites Like, he was really nowhere.
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - Amiri...
Lately, I’ve become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog. Or the broad edged silly music the wind Makes when I run for a bus… Things have come to that. And now, each night I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when they will not come to be counted, I count the holes they leave. Nobody sings...
Somebody Blew Up America
(All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international… But one should not be used To cover the other)
“You can kill my body, but you can’t kill my soul. My soul will live...”
– Huey Newton
WAR - Bob Marley
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior And another Inferior Is finally And permanently Discredited And abandoned - Everywhere is war - Me say war. That until there no longer First class and second class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man’s skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - Me say war. That until the basic human rights Are equally...
How are you living your life right now?
You may say that you want to change. that you want to lose 35 pounds by the end of the year. That you want to get a book deal and write a novel. that you want to learn how to draw and paint and learn to decorate so you can change your proffession to that of an interior designer. What are you doing right now to help you? You’re reading this, and it’s a good start, but what about...
“Negar la sucesión temporal, negar el yo, negar el universo astronómico, son...”
– A Quote by Jorge Luis Borges on borges, time, myth, and destiny | The Gaiam Blog
I've decided to get myself a pen pal : D
Keeping a Daily Journal
I was browsing through Barnes and Noble the other day and happened to stumble upon a book (whose’s title escape my mind) which recommended writing at least 3 pages a day. It didn’t stress what exactly one should write about, in fact it said write everything that comes to the mind, to let it flow out like a continuous stream, without caring about how messy or chaotic it might be. It...
“The Universe is Wider than our Views of It”
– Henry David Thoreau
I wish there was an easy path toward success.
*sigh*
I must remember that "without struggle, there is no progress"
Man on the Moon Remix
sometimes my life feels faded, cant remember why im livinmy emotions feeling jaded, even though i’ve been forgivin,im just livin for the moment, and im hoping i can make itall my dreams before me, damn sure im gonna take emgonna take em to the end , if im attack then ill defendnot going away without fight, without my dreams within my sight,though im shrouded in thick darkness one day ill...
Spirit of lodin
“I look down from my height on nations,
And they become ashes before me;—
Calm is my dwelling in the clouds;
Pleasant are the great fields of my rest.”
